It was the biggest prisoner transfer ever conducted in france-and it reflects a belated effort to respond to dreadful prison conditions.

这是法国进行过最大的一次囚犯转移，也是响应可怕的囚犯待遇迟来的努力。

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That sounds like a belated effort to climb on to the Internet bandwagon.

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Maybe it's Sarbanes-Oxley, maybe it's the spirit of the times, or maybe it's just a belated effort to earn their own, sometimes lavish, pay, but corporate directors sure are acting up these days.

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Tempers are running high over the Coast Guard's belated effort to recover thousands of old batteries, containing toxic materials, which it dumped between the 1920s and the 1970s in waterways all over the country.

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